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Replication files for: Seeing What Citizens Miss

Authors: Leonardo R. Arriola, Arsene Brice Bado, Justine M. Davis, Allison N. Grossman, Aila M. Matanock

This document describes the contents of the replication archive that reproduces the results in the paper. All files were compiled using Windows 11, MacOS 13.3 and R version 2024.12.1.

The R packages used for analysis are listed at the beginning of the script.

All data included in this replication archive was originally collected by the authors, unless noted, who have the right to share it.

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1. Replication_FINAL.R - R script that reproduces the results of the paper and appendix.

2. Original datasets:

A. main_final.csv -- Main analysis file of post-treatment data
B. location_lvl_data.csv -- Location level data from baseline survey supervisors merged with GPS locations for maps
C. Citizens_Baseline.csv -- Citizens baseline data
D. Monitors_Baseline.csv -- Monitors baseline demographics data
E. Monitors_endline.csv -- Monitors data that merges baseline with violence reporting data

3. Codebook.pdf - codebook for variables included in A-H.

4. Datasets we did not produce: 

A. civ.df is the shape files for Côte d'Ivoire, obtained here: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-civ.
B. civ_dept_centroids.csv is the longitude and latitude for the center of each department derived from the shape files.
C. We acquired ACLED data using the ACLED API. Details on how to use the ACLED API here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acledR/acledR.pdf; requires a username and password


